Quick Question

Official timeline - very hard to "review".

Why - the "notes" for it are on scattered papers, and notebooks, spanning years. They are not "cross correlated." They tend to "cluster" around time periods, or events, or even, a person's life…

Example: the Twelve Swords of Isaer - their histories wax and wane, depending on what was going on at the time. Each sword has a story. Some emerge into prominence in the hands of a certain individual - then fall into background. To "correlate" them - one needs to look at a Lot of material - and recall all of the bearers and events, and look THEM up, individually. Then compile…and some of the notes are literally on restaurant napkins…backs of train schedules. Yup - whenever they "arrived" they got jotted. Even in class notes from college.

I did MUCHO work on this, as I was "correcting" the glossaries in the UK reissue books…swore I'd get some of it available for this site - but the art deadlines, page proofs, production deadlines, then a short story - all due - sidetracked me yet again.

It's a Massive Job.

And you have to realize - the notes for this ERA are all mixed into the others…yup - First, Second and Third Ages - are only a FRAGMENT sliver of Atheran history, in total.

Drakish histories extend back WAY further.

(They covered the Era of Destruction, which followed AFTER the Era of Creation - Paravian arrival marked the Opening of the Era of Redemption, of which there were Seven Ages…)

Complex mess of notes…